Solaris

how to rename the console in solaris?
hi all, im using "common desktop environment" of solaris. i dont know the which verison of solaris. i dont know if "common desktop environment" is a valid term used elsewhere. how can we rename the terminals and consoles in solaris? i think there should be some way to do it. thank you, Kaushik ... 16 Apr 2008 12:25

automating username/password when ssh to cisco router
Trying to ssh from a Sun Solaris box to a Cisco router and want to use a script to log in automatically without it prompting for a username and password. Looks like you can use ssh -l <username> to specify a username but there doesnt appear to be a way to send the password, so it still prompts for this. I und... 22 Apr 2008 19:37

Require Help
Hi group, am facing a core dump while executing a single threaded application on Solaris 5.8. The back trace is as follows: core 'core' of 4494: ff1ba320 nvmatch (ff23e880, ff23c008, 0, ffbef5d4, ff22ac24, 0) ff1d4f6c getsystemTZ (ff1d25ac, 68e44, ff270108, ff3de79c, 0, 5) + 14 ff1d31d4 _ltzset_u (... 16 Apr 2008 10:49

dtrace inside local zone does not work
Hi i'm trying to run some dtrace inside a local zone but i get always some error messages Is dtrace not zone aware ? bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'syscall::exece:return { trace(execname); }' dtrace: invalid probe specifier syscall::exece:return { trace(execname); }: probe description syscall::exece:return does ... 16 Apr 2008 06:36

How to backout of Solaris 10 kernel patch - Newbie question
Dear Sir/Madam, I've just applied a kernel patch #127111-10 at our Solaris 10 server which runs Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle with root mirrored and encapsulated. The command I used was "# patchadd 127111-10". The server has been running that kernel patch for 2 days. Unfortunately, we've been asked to... 16 Apr 2008 04:13

need help with a newbie problem
On Apr 15, 6:18 pm, aw...(a)blackhole.nyx.net (arthur wouk) wrote: i am ashamed to tell you how i got in the following predicament: i moved /lib out of the / directory. suffice it to say i am not a sysadmin. i was running solaris 10 (latest release). of course nothing works. is there a way to boot c... 15 Apr 2008 21:06

Unable to mkfs ona new volume??
Hello all, I've just created a simple volume using command: vxassist -b -g winddg -U fsgen make windarc 1g After this, issuing a newfs reports me No such device root(a)windn2 # newfs /dev/vx/rdsk/winddg/windarchive /dev/vx/rdsk/winddg/windarchive: No such device or address ls -al /dev/vx/rdsk/winddg/winda... 17 Apr 2008 23:40

what is memory hog
Could some one explain me what is meomry hog in Solaris ? and how does it happen? ... 15 Apr 2008 20:19

NIS and Autofs
Hi. Need some help/direction. I've been searching for a concise answer to no avail, hence the post. I'm trying to apply a direct map using NIS. I have auto_master and auto_home and auto_direct in the NIS namespace: # ypcat -k auto.master +auto_master /home +auto_home -nobrowse /net -hosts /- ... 15 Apr 2008 11:32

Zone api?
Hello, I'm trying to figure out if there is an api that would tell me which zone the current application runs in. Is there such a thing so I could look into if it runs in global or non-global zone? Thanks. -- Henrik ... 15 Apr 2008 13:57